ENGINEER ROAD CONSTRUCTION BATTALION IN PLAVECKE PODHRADIE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005700480010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 13, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CUUi4TRY Czechoslovakia REPORT NJ
TOPIC =gin;*ineer hoad Construction Battalion in x'lavecke Podhradie
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1. The engineer road construction battalion was ruartered in
I- asarny Obo ara, a two-story brick barracks s 1 or 2 km north-
,?:ost of Plavecke ?odhradie (P 49/T 03) , on the rowd to
TPlaveclLe 1ikulas (P 49/T 03). (1) The battalion h:..adquarters
was in the castle;, where officers of the Solosnica (p 49/
T 02) air',,--eld wer also billeted, and :There wearons and
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in Sered (P 31). (2)
2. About tvio-thirds of the battalion personnel were Czechs,
about one-third Slovaks and 20 soldiers were Hungarians.
Most of the 11. were considered rolitically unreliable. They
included former officers and ECUs who had been reduced in
ran?..: to r rivates. (3)
The battalion consisted of the headquarters and only one
company. (4) Senior Lieutenant Fedorcik, (fnu), was both
battalion and company commander. The company, called the
1st Co. was organized into. the. lst throug_i 3rd Platoons,
which were classified by function as demolition platoon,
road construction platoon and bridge building platoon.
The personnel of the company numbered 4 officers, 7 regular
SXOs and 306 LTT.
4. The battalion had 350 rifles of German, Czech and Soviet
origin 6 Soviet submachine guns, 6 Soviet pistols..12
bayonets, 3 trucks and 4 passenger cars. Special equipment
included an air compressor, 10 pneumatic drill.harrners and
3 electric motors for stone crushers in the lst Plat- a
steam roller and a tractor in the 2d Plat; an electric field
forge, two electric drills, an autogenous welding set, 15
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hand-operated iron drills and some paint sprayers in
the 3rd plat.
After sixwpeeks basic training the personnel were distri-
buted to the triree platoons. Eau were interchanged between
the platoons at 6-month intervals.
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Llements of the 4th Lngr Refit vere previously observed in
Sered. a previous report also mentioned an
engineer regiment in Sereda
A so-called penal battalion,
The data are presumably incomplete. According to a previous
report, another company of tae battalion was located in
Kamenica
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